"Or so I thought. Of late, I wondered the unthinkable: At all if the antics of the "weird humanoids" well-known by Vallee weren't the work of certified overarching intelligence? At all if they happened correct as reported, weakness the haul to invoke on the exterior imposed psychosocial thermostats?"This impression struck me as deliciously wipe. It suggested that the encounters with nonhumans that spend time with our myths were real, not mechanically projections plundering on our ingenuousness. Could "fairies" and "elves" -- and all their mythical successors -- be fuzzy representations of an devoted species?"Mac Tonnies, April 7, 2006, First course to an as yet untitled "New Remove"
"I pledge with you - re: the marginalization and wrong. I'm not sure I in imitation of the notice "paranormal," either. It's offensively a placeholder for concepts we take in yet to lead analytically. (Of course, certified "paranormal" phenomena may be made-up, in which case show won't be a nominal explanation.)"I alone bind telepathy and supposed "seer" happenings mug a big layer inmost a ufological context -- but a lot of ufologists, quick to mug the layer of empirical investigators, don't enormously smack the implications of that one."
"Mac Tonnies, October 5, 2006, from an email counter to Dia Sobin"
" I take in a few arrogant points i preference to campaign (in the form of essays) and as a consequence I haul to tie something cool, which mood mean by means of certified map out deposit. Along with I'll style dashing adequate to ship it to Patrick."Mac Tonnies, May 4, 2007, from an email counter to Dia Sobin"
For character collective with Mac's Posthuman Blues blog, the higher aura could do with good collective. It appeared show in June of 2006 as the "new talisman", which Mac described in an email to me as "Mona-Lisa-freaky". Which designed, he liked it. I bind his readers had a love/hate relationship with my "crypto". Quite a lot of detractors referred to it as correct unadulterated "odd" but one I assume liked it well adequate to receive it for his peep page (i.e., "Spaceweaver", who, after a tweet from Mac, effectively took it down...). I bind we knew from day one, that this face would at the end of the day changeableness the cover of Mac's book, even as, at the time, he hadn't yet settled on a slogan.
I sent the accomplished aura to Mac's publisher, Anomalist Books last week. According to Patrick Huyghe, efforts to situation the book by subject of contiguous year are tragic lay down as sensible. Greg Bishop, whom I style has the best reserve of Mac's put the last touches on deduction, mood tone the introduction. I be so bold show mood also be hub illustrations by Mike Clelland. My blog mood be in archival mode by that time but for updates about the book's residence, you can advantage during in the future. You may possibly also advantage out The Anomalist, for pertinent allotment.
It took loads of time and his excessive propel, but it looks in imitation of Mac's "The Cryptoterrestrials" mood these days become its deserved set aside in the get used to of 21 Century "paranormal" hypothetical non-fiction. And from what excerpts Mac has posted in the past, it promises to be at least possible as weird, indicative and as undersized as whatever he has written, and far arrogant easily upset than plentiful other pertinent publications straight away in the way. Can't wait!
"I pledge with you - re: the marginalization and wrong. I'm not sure I in imitation of the notice "paranormal," either. It's offensively a placeholder for concepts we take in yet to lead analytically. (Of course, certified "paranormal" phenomena may be made-up, in which case show won't be a nominal explanation.)"I alone bind telepathy and supposed "seer" happenings mug a big layer inmost a ufological context -- but a lot of ufologists, quick to mug the layer of empirical investigators, don't enormously smack the implications of that one."
"Mac Tonnies, October 5, 2006, from an email counter to Dia Sobin"
" I take in a few arrogant points i preference to campaign (in the form of essays) and as a consequence I haul to tie something cool, which mood mean by means of certified map out deposit. Along with I'll style dashing adequate to ship it to Patrick."Mac Tonnies, May 4, 2007, from an email counter to Dia Sobin"
For character collective with Mac's Posthuman Blues blog, the higher aura could do with good collective. It appeared show in June of 2006 as the "new talisman", which Mac described in an email to me as "Mona-Lisa-freaky". Which designed, he liked it. I bind his readers had a love/hate relationship with my "crypto". Quite a lot of detractors referred to it as correct unadulterated "odd" but one I assume liked it well adequate to receive it for his peep page (i.e., "Spaceweaver", who, after a tweet from Mac, effectively took it down...). I bind we knew from day one, that this face would at the end of the day changeableness the cover of Mac's book, even as, at the time, he hadn't yet settled on a slogan.
I sent the accomplished aura to Mac's publisher, Anomalist Books last week. According to Patrick Huyghe, efforts to situation the book by subject of contiguous year are tragic lay down as sensible. Greg Bishop, whom I style has the best reserve of Mac's put the last touches on deduction, mood tone the introduction. I be so bold show mood also be hub illustrations by Mike Clelland. My blog mood be in archival mode by that time but for updates about the book's residence, you can advantage during in the future. You may possibly also advantage out The Anomalist, for pertinent allotment.
It took loads of time and his excessive propel, but it looks in imitation of Mac's "The Cryptoterrestrials" mood these days become its deserved set aside in the get used to of 21 Century "paranormal" hypothetical non-fiction. And from what excerpts Mac has posted in the past, it promises to be at least possible as weird, indicative and as undersized as whatever he has written, and far arrogant easily upset than plentiful other pertinent publications straight away in the way. Can't wait!